About & how to get involved
1st Season 1964/65 Come Blow Your Horn
1st Season1964/65 Come Blow Your horn
1st Season 1964/65 Now Here
1st Season 1964/5 Ten Little Indians
2nd Season 1965/6 Everybody Loves Opal
2nd Season 1965/6 State of Union
2nd Season 1965/6 Teahouse
2nd Season 1965/6 Teahouse
3rd Season 1966/7 The Glass Menagerie
3rd Season 1966/7 Arsenic and Old Lace
3rd Season 1966/7 Under the Yum Yum Tree
4th Season 1967/8 The Music Man
4th Season 1967/8 Murder My Sweet Matilda & Send Me No Flowers
5th Season 1968/9 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
5th Season 1968/9 Charley's Aunt & Barefoot in the Park
6th Season 1969/70 Cinderella's Slipper
6th Season 1969/70 Annie Get Your Gun
6th Season 1969/70 The Odd Couple
7th Season 1970/1 Blithe Spirit
7th Season 1970/1 The Night of January 16th
7th Season 1970/1 Carousel
7th Season 1970/1 Carosel
7th Season 1970/1 Goodbye Charlie
8th Season 1971/2 Plaza Suite
8th Season 1971/2 South Pacific
8th Season 1971/2 Cactus Flower
8th Season 1971/2 You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
9th Season 1972/3 The Girls in 509
9th Season 1972/3 Finian's Rainbow
9th Season 1972/3 Finian's Rainbow
9th Season 1972/3 Desperate Hours
9th Season 1972/3 Hobbit
10th Season 1913/4 Sunday in New York
10th Season 1973/4 Oklahoma
10th Season 1973/4 Dark at the Top of the Stairs
10th Season 1973/4 The Fantasticks
11th Season 1974/5 Catch Me if You Can
11th Season 1974/5 Fiddler on the Roof
11th Season 1974/5 Fiddler on the Roof
11th Season 1974/5 Butterflies are Free
11th Season 1974/5 The Odd Couple
12th Season 1975/6 Don't Drink the Water
12th Season 1975/6 The Mousetrap
12th Season 1975/6 1776
12th Season 1975/6 1776
12th Season 1975/6 Guys & Dolls
13th Season 1976/7 Never Too Late
13th Season 1976/7 The Sound of Music
13th Season 1976/7 The Sound of Music
13th Season 1976/7 The Rainmaker
13th Season 1976/7 Godspell
14th Season 1977/8 Inherit The Wind
14th Season 1977/8 My Fair Lady
14th Season 1977/8 How the Other Half Lives
14th Season 1977/8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15th Season 1978/9 West Side Story
15th Season 1978/9 A Shot in the Dark
15th Season 1978/9 Picnic
15th Season 1978/9 The Good Doctor
16th Season 1979/80 The King and I
16th Season 1979/80 Any Wednesday
16th Season 1979/80 Lilies of the Field
16th Season 1979/20 Cabaret
17th Season 1980/1 Story Theatre
17th Season 1980/81 Brigadoon
17th Season 1980/81 Angel Street (gaslight)
17th Season 1980/81 Same Time, Next Year
18th Season 1981/2 Oklahoma
18th Season 1981/2 Oklahoma
18th Season 1981/2 Dial M for Murder
18th Season 1981/2 Barefoot in the Park
18th Season 1981/2 Kiss Me Kate
19th Season 1982/3 Heaven Can Wait
19th Season 1982/3 Paint Your Wagon
19th Season 1982/3 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
19th Season 1982/3 You Can't Take it With You
Ole Olsen Memorial Theatre is a non-profit community theater group in Peru, Indiana founded in 1964.
We were named after John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen who was born in Peru, Indiana on November 6, 1892.
The son of a Norwegian immigrant who was a boiler-maker for the railroad, "Ole" graduated from Northwestern University in 1912 with a degree in music and hit the Vaudeville circuit.
His ambition was to make people laugh, and is remembered for the quote, "May you live as long as you laugh, and laugh as long as you live."
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How to Get Involved
The easiest way to get involved is to attend an audition. Auditions are announced on our Facebook Page and Facebook Group. You may also send us a message on Facebook, leave a message on our voicemail at 765-472-3680, or use our contact form.
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How Ole Olsen Memorial Theater Operates
Our theater operates on ticket and merchandise sales, memberships, sponsorships, and your donations. We also have fundraisers such as memorial brick sales and the rental of our depot, gazebo, and garden.
If you would like to rent the depot, gazebo, and/or garden for your event, please contact Brandi: [email protected]
If you would like to purchase a memorial brick, please contact Deb: [email protected]
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Ole Olsen Board Members for the 2023 - 2024 Season
President: Brandi Murphy
Vice President: Bryan Bertoline
Secretary:
Tickets: Cindy Ridenour
Publicity: Debby Myers
Hospitality: Chris Cox
Treasurer: Kati Roberts
Member at Large: Shanna Stoll
Production: Open
Children's Theater: Accepting Applications!
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Become an Ole Olsen Member!
We are all volunteers striving to continue a 58 year tradition of offering a variety of entertainment to our community.
You can get involved too! You can run lights and/or sound, help build sets, help with make up and costumes, direct a show, or act in a show,
We offer a two tier membership plan: “voting” or "participating."
"Voting" Membership:
The cost of the Voting Membership is $13.50, which entitles you to the following:
- Vote in the selection for slate of plays
- Vote in the election for Ole Board of Directors
- Be eligible to run for an Ole Board Position.
- Participate in Ole Productions
- Receive an Ole Olsen Newsletter
- Receive a FREE ticket to a show in the present season
- Deadline for this membership is October 15th, 2023.
"Participation" Membership:
After the deadline of October 15th, 2023 anyone who wants to be involved in Ole may purchase a $10 “Participation” Membership, which entitles you to the following:
- Participate in productions
- Receive an Ole Olsen Newsletter
“Participating” members will not have voting rights in the elections and will not receive a free show ticket.
You can either:
- Drop your payment in the mail slot at the depot
- Mail it to 154 S Broadway Peru, IN 46970
- Make a donation on the website by clicking the Donation button. In the checkout screen in the comments please type Membership.